Time does not Exist

And watching it unfold beautifully is a welcome surprise while watching Foundation series (in Apple+). True, I am watching it episode by episode, but since the first season, the series prepared the viewers (like me) to delve deeper into concept of non-time. Everything is happening simultaneously, chronologically but not spontaneously. It’s a gentle journey to mind bending space and time. Treating worlds, and people like natural occurences. Jumping in space like it’s not new, but still open to possibilities of new technologies existing.

You know what’s old and timeless? Rebellions, clash of ideas, misuse of power, corruption, slavery, destruction, violence, genocide, xenocide, murder, politics, sacrifice, sorrow and hope. In addition, programming, memory alteration.

Things that are not new, but put in a different setting, at first one can be blinded by awe, but that is only because, we aren’t there yet. Going into season 2, and feeling like I am already a part of Empire, suffering oppression by a royal dynasty, built up through greed and slavery.

Tomorrow is the last episode, I know I could have read this if I wanted too. But I for one, know that demerzel in the book is a man. And demerzel in the series is a woman, last of its kind, enslaved by Cleon, programmed to serve empire.

She will always be here, as she always has been.

Tesseracts

The first time I read about them is in a children’s book, which I discovered, is included in a list of banned books in the US. The first time I read about them, I was in gradeschool having newly discovered that I love reading science fiction themed books, after reading a bunch of Nancy Drew books. I was maybe 10 or 12 yrs old. And then I discovered, in my later years that this children’s sci-fi banned book has been written sometime in the 1960’s, and I had my mindblown even then.

From here, I discovered, reading a sci-fi genre and being a part of this fandom are two different things. I realized, this fandom is heavily guarded and gatekeeped and that someone has to prove to somebody how much of a fan one is, before being accepted to this fandom. Who made the rules?

For starters, I haven’t read Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. I know, this might get my sci-fi reader card revoked. And according to a lot of people’s opinions, this book might be the first of its kind in the sci-fi genre. And this is where I discovered that the sci-fi genre that I loved, involves a lot of space and time travel, some aliens, unearthly beings and intangible dimensions. How? Because I also loved Ender’s Game, the series and that classic, Time Machine by HG Wells.

Apart from books, I also watch a handful of series like ‘The Foundation’, ‘Silo’ and also some movies like ‘The Watchmen’.

Sci-fi is one of the most wide genre in my opinion, because a romance can also be a sci-fi, a horror can also be sci-fi, fantasy sci-fi is a thing too. I don’t get the gatekeeping. I have joined some groups specific for sci-fi genre, but gosh, why is it difficult to just enjoy things without being questioned why.

Going back to the tesseracts, i was absolutely thrilled, when I discovered that this book I read in my childhood, was adapted into a movie in my adulthood. Wow, I cannot believe I lived long enough for it to happen. Anyway, this book is titled “A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeleine L’engle. Our school library had it, and when I first started a job, I bought other books in the series, I intend to keep them for my future offsprings.

SO yeah, also I am no math genius, but tesseracts are awesome, even if I do not understand the numbers and equations involved. I love the concept of folding space and time as the fastest way to travel through planets and dimension.

5/5 will recommend to children.